i’m not the only one going crazy

29Feb08

what is going on at Fed Ex?  seriously.  what would possess a Professional Deliveryperson to leave my package with some lady named Maria who lives eight city blocks away from me?  And then, as if that is not weird enough, Maria calls me to say she’s got my package.  (In truth, I have no idea [...]

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i told you. expect the unexpected.

29Feb08

I’m not sure what the most disturbing aspect of this is: that several performers are essentially in blackface, that the MJ impersonator actually looks better than the real dude, or that I find the Cindy Lauper imitation compelling. I’m gonna go with ‘blackface.’
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Apparently, there is a lingual crisis.

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all bets are off, today

29Feb08

h/t scatterplot
amazon users review a quart of milk. god takes interest in humanity, again.

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handle yourself

27Feb08

daft hands with the original bit: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

and then there’s barats and bereta go and make it crazy (with Kayne’s “Stronger”):

in other music news: j dillah is in no way “hip hop’s last true genius, and its greatest loss“. don’t get me wrong: pharcyde’s [...]

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quixotic

26Feb08

i’m not sure why i’m so captivated by this, except, even when i stare at it real, real hard, i still have no idea what it means.  at Found Magazine, the submitter guessed it is directions for a drag ball.  fair enough.

also, a friend asked me this question recently: why do U.S. English speakers say [...]

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better days

26Feb08

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sometimes self-help is located in the sociology section.

26Feb08

“gosh, jenn, i keep writing emails and offending the addressee. why is that happening? what can i do to change it?”
read the simplest email etiquette guide ever written and follow its prescriptions.

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imperious

25Feb08

i have one friend who is moving to iraq on april 1. (get it? april 1?)
i have another friend who is about to go to kosova. she here quotes one travel website on documentation procedures for travelers to the country:
“Americans and EU Citizens do not need a visa and can stay in [...]

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free russia

25Feb08

as many of you must know by now, the european university at st. petersburg has been shut down since feb 7. the university boasts the best social science graduate school in the country.  this will be hard for most americans to imagine: it is essentially as if you woke up one day and found that [...]

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attention

24Feb08

there’s a wiki you can use to report your experiences with the sociology (and related discipline) journals.  it just might influence where you submit your next piece.
….i hope it does not encourage us to slow down our reviews.  i just turned around a review-of-a-revision in one week, because i’ve been waiting on a review-on-a-revision for [...]

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